In his translation of Basil's Hexameron (also a later work), for example, Aelfric says that on the fifth day, God created fish, whales, and birds, but resigns the "creopendan wyrmas" ( "creeping reptiles") to the sixth day.

In the time of Tsar Simeon, himself an author, considerable literary activity prevailed; among the more remarkable works of this period was the _Shestodnev_, or Hexameron, of John the exarch, an account of the creation.

Then he pointed out the _Hexameron_ of Torquemada and the _Tableau de l'Inconstance des Démons_, by Delancre; he drew his finger down the leather back of Delrio's _Disquisitiones Magicae_ and set upright the